Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice

The indispensable guide to wireless communications—now fully revised and updated!

Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Second Edition is the definitive modern text for wireless communications technology and system design. Building on his classic first edition, Theodore S. Rappaport covers the fundamental issues impacting all wireless networks and reviews virtually every important new wireless standard and technological development, offering especially comprehensive coverage of the 3G systems and wireless local area networks (WLANs) that will transform communications in the coming years. Rappaport illustrates each key concept with practical examples, thoroughly explained and solved step by step. Coverage includes:

• An overview of key wireless technologies: voice, data, cordless, paging, fixed and mobile broadband wireless systems, and beyond
• Wireless system design fundamentals: channel assignment, handoffs, trunking efficiency, interference, frequency reuse, capacity planning, large-scale fading, and more
• Path loss, small-scale fading, multipath, reflection, diffraction, scattering, shadowing, spatial-temporal channel modeling, and microcell/indoor propagation
• Modulation, equalization, diversity, channel coding, and speech coding
• New wireless LAN technologies: IEEE 802.11a/b, HIPERLAN, BRAN, and other alternatives
• New 3G air interface standards, including W-CDMA, cdma2000, GPRS, UMTS, and EDGE
• Bluetooth wearable computers, fixed wireless and Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS), and other advanced technologies
• Updated glossary of abbreviations and acronyms, and a thorough list of references
• Dozens of new examples and end-of-chapter problems

Whether you're a communications/network professional, manager, researcher, or student, Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Second Edition gives you an in-depth understanding of the state of the art in wireless technology—today's and tomorrow's.

Offering a wealth of practical information on the implementation realities of wireless communications, this book also contains up-to-date information on the major wireless communication standards from around the world. Covers every fundamental aspect of wireless communications, from cellular system design to networking, plus the world-wide standards.

Wireless Communications, Second Edition is the definitive professional's overview of wireless communications technology and system design. Building on his classic first edition, Theodore S. Rappaport reviews virtually every important new wireless standard and technological development, including W-CDMA, cdma2000, UMTS, and UMC 136/EDGE; IEEE 802.11 and HIPERLAN WLANs; Bluetooth, LMDS, and more. Includes dozens of practical new examples, solved step by step.

Theodore S. Rappaport is the James S. Tucker Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and is the Series Editor for the Prentice Hall Communications Engineering and Emerging Technologies Series. In 1990 he founded the Mobile & Portable Radio Research Group at Virginia Tech, one of the first university research and educational programs focused on wireless communications. Rappaport has developed dozens of commercial products now used by major carriers and manufacturers. He has also created fundamental research and teaching materials used in industry short courses and in university classrooms around the globe. His current research focuses on new methods for analyzing and developing wireless broadband and portable Internet access in emerging frequency bands, and on the development, modeling, and practical use of 3-D site-specific propagation techniques for future wireless networks.